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Adventures into Weird Worlds Vol 1 6

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Release me, gentlemen! The guilty one is dead... my brother, the ghoul!

—Julius Luther

Appearing in "My Brother... the Ghoul"

Featured Characters:

  • Hugo Luther (First appearance; dies)
  • Julius Luther (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Night Watchman
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Two unnamed police officers
  • Unnamed Warden
  • Three unnamed corrections officers

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "My Brother... the Ghoul"

Identical twins live out by the cemetery and when one gets hurt the other feels it. One is just but the other is a grave robber. The grave robber is sighted by the night watchman one evening and followed back to his dwelling. He switches clothes with the good brother so that he is the one arrested and sent to the electric chair. Moments before the execution the good brother professes his innocence, but of course this doesn't delay the pull of the switch. Miles away, the fatal current surges through the grave robber's body and the good brother asks to be released from the device.

Appearing in "The Image"

Featured Characters:

  • Roger Fairmont (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Edward Morris Models Inc. (First appearance)
    • Edward Morris' Secretary
    • Edward Morris (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Waverly Publishing Company (First appearance)
    • Marian Waverly (Mentioned)
  • Roxanne (Party Guest) (First appearance)
  • Unnamed Delivery Boy
  • Unnamed Landlady

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Image"

Roger Fairmont, an accountant for the Waverly Publishing Company begins to take his appearance for granted. Becoming vain he decides to alter his plain un-important role of an accountant and go to a modeling agency to become a model despite having no experience as one.

On his way to the agency Roger's skin forms a scaley burning spot on his chin that he shrugs off. During the interview he shrugs off the the lack of experience he has and focuses on how handsome he is. While doing this his face begins to burn like before. The interviewer, Edward Morris, finally looks at him and dismisses his boasts due to the amount of scars on his face. Roger rushes from the office and looks at the mirror on his way home. He can't believe his eyes when he spots that the scales have spread on his face so much so that people on the subway are starting to stare and pity him.

Returning home he locks himself away in his apartment and hides or obscures all mirrors. He also cuts off the outside world, only paying for food delivery and his rent under the door. After some time passes his curiosity gets the better of him and he cleans off the mirror to have a look. What he sees is not that man that woman would talk about, but a ghoulish figure looking back at him.

Appearing in "Step Right into the... House of Horror"

Featured Characters:

  • Charles Boyd (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Jean (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Ghost

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "Step Right into the... House of Horror"

A haunted house investigator and a reporter visit an old house. Inside the house they spot a ghost, the investigator believes it's a fake and touches it. After doing so the ghost disappears and the house around him goes from an abandoned destroyed house to a clean orderly house. The investigator confidently tells the reporter how it must have all been an illusion. The reporter however flees in terror and tells the man that it wasn't the house that changed it was the ghost that changed him. The investigator looking into the mirror and sees himself as a skeletal ghost.

Appearing in "The Wooden Man"

Featured Characters:

  • Laura (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Kevin (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Ventro (Ventriloquist Dummy) (First appearance)

Synopsis for "The Wooden Man"

A deformed dwarf uses a life-size mannequin as his dummy in a ventriloquist act.

Appearing in "The Ghost Still Walks"

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Freshman

Supporting Characters:

  • Unidentified Fraternity
    • Harry Benson (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
    • Numerous unnamed fraternity brothers (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

  • Bud Lane (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed college freshmen (Main story and flashback)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "The Ghost Still Walks"

Frat boys tell the legend of a pledge who died of fright during his initiation and placed a curse upon them. A new pledge laughs at the story but becomes increasingly anxious as the hour drags on that they must stay in the cursed manor. Finally, he can bear the hooded eyes of the frat leader gazing upon him no more, as he has become convinced the frat leader has been possessed by the dead boy's spirit. He yanks off the frat leader's hood, but the boy is normal in appearance. The frat leader is angered by this affront, and in turn yanks off the pledge's hood, but shrinks away in terror. The pledge's rotted hands shoot out and fasten themselves around the leader's neck until he is nothing but a corpse. Too late, the new pledge realizes that he has been the one possessed by the dead boy's spirit because he laughed at the legend.

Appearing in "He Dwells in a Dungeon"

Featured Characters:

  • Jean (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • George (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Henry (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • George's Uncle (Mentioned) (Deceased)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "He Dwells in a Dungeon"

A woman marries a wealthy man with the intention of getting him committed to an asylum so she will get all his money, but first she must dispose of his feeble-minded brother. Because his appearance disturbs her, she asks her husband to make him stay in the basement. She removes her husband's gun from the drawer and heads down the stairs into the dark. When she sights the figure in the gloom, she fires the weapon, and returns upstairs. When she hears footsteps outside her door, she thinks it's her husband, but when the door opens and her brother-in-law advances upon her with bloodlust etched in his twisted face, she realizes she killed the wrong man.

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